This scene shows part of the loading of large cartridges of DuPont 60% gelatin dynamite in the Susquehanna River near Marietta, Pennsylvania. The cartridges were five inches in diameter, 24 inches long and weighed 25 pounds each. The illustration...

Tunnel leads into one of the ten mound shaped buildings which form manufacturing area at DuPont's dynamite plant near Martinsburg, West Virginia. Concrete walls are twice as thick as foundation of well built home. Air conditioning is new feature of...

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In 1880, the first charge of nitroglycerine was produced at the Repauno dynamite pant in a building similar in architecture and construction to the one above-as waste acid building. This structure was still in operation until 1954 when the company...

Dynamite ingredients are carefully weighed and mixed for the powder lines in the dope house at the Repauno, New Jersey plant of the DuPont Company. Operator is dumping ammonium nitrate into a bin mounted on scales.

Dynamite is shoveled into the hopper of a gelatin cartridge machine which packs the explosive into a heavy paper tube, closes the tube ends, and ejects the finished cartridge at the Repauno, New Jersey plant of the DuPont Company.

A typical instance of control over giant explosive forces was the damming of the Saguenay River in Canada for a hydroelectric project. The torrential rush of the current balked successive attempts to complete a cofferdam, the conventional method....

A typical instance of control over giant explosive forces was the damming of the Saguenay River in Canada for a hydroelectric project. The torrential rush of the current balked successive attempts to complete a cofferdam, the conventional method....

In grading the 88 miles of the West Virginia Turnpike, the builders has a rugged job on their hands in moving 30,000,000 cubic yards of dirt and rock. DuPont gelatin dynamite is being loaded into holes. This type of dynamite is used in mining,...

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Into one end of the modern DuPont dynamite plant flow nitric acid, glycerin and other basic ingredients of dynamite. Each of four key steps in manufacture is carried out in a different mound, connected by specially designed conveyors like the one...